4/6/2017 8:41:02 AM Jazz Shaw…If you do any amount of personal or business travel, odds are you have checked out some of those comparison shopping sites for airline tickets. You know the ones… Kayak, Expedia and a host of others are competing for a chance to find you the best…More…

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Robert Naiman, Truthout: The White House will soon consider a proposal to directly engage the US military in Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen, including a planned United Arab Emirates attack on the port of Hodeida. A bipartisan group of Congress members is demanding Trump seek congressional approval before escalating US involvement. …..Read the Article

Alfred McCoy, TomDispatch: In 2016, something extraordinary happened in the politics of diverse countries around the world. With surprising speed and simultaneity, a new generation of right-wing populist leaders emerged from the margins of nominally democratic nations to win power. As we work to resist the actions of these leaders, including Trump, we must not forget about their foreign policy agendas.

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04-05-2017 • newatlas.com by Rich Hardy …Researchers at the Mayo Clinic, in collaboration with a team from UCLA, set out to expand on previous work done at the University of Louisville that established a process by which electrical currents directed into the spine could be used to regain control of paralyzed limbs.

Jered Chinnock had an accident three years earlier that injured his back at the sixth thoracic vertebrae. Although researchers initially diagnosed him with a motor complete spinal cord injury it was suspected that dormant connections across his injury, meaning his condition could be reclassified as discomplete.

The Mayo Clinic study started with Chinnock undertaking 22 weeks of intensive physical therapy to prepare his muscles for the spinal cord stimulation.………Read Full Story

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the recent chemical weapons attacks in Syria "crossed many, many lines beyond a red line" for him and assigned some blame for the violence to former President Barack Obama.

"It crossed a lot of lines for me," Trump told reporters at the White House. "When you kill innocent children, innocent babies, babies, little babies, with a chemical gas that is so lethal, people were shocked to hear what gas it was, that crosses many, many lines, beyond a red line. Many, many lines."

Trump, while acknowledging that he is now responsible for the American reaction to the chemical attacks, criticized Obama for not taking military action in Syria, even though Trump at the time had publicly urged the president not to do so.

"I think the Obama administration had a great opportunity to solve this crisis a long time ago when he said the red line in the sand," Trump said. "And when he didn’t cross that line after making the threat, I think that set us back a long ways, not only in Syria, but in many other parts of the world, because it was a blank threat. I think it was something that was not one of our better days as a country."